<p>The Cisco Network Associate Certificate at Southwestern Illinois College is designed to provide students with the foundational knowledge and hands-on skills necessary to succeed in the field of networking. This program focuses on the design, configuration, and maintenance of network infrastructure using Cisco technologies. Students will gain expertise in configuring routers and switches, implementing LAN and WAN solutions, and securing network environments.</p>

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Cisco Network Associate

Southwestern Illinois College

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Install, configure, and maintain an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.